Place name in Hiwada Town, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture.
福島県郡山市 日和田町
A "pillow word" (utamakura) of the Manyo-Shu.

It is situated in a plain and the name refers to the domain of Asaka 阿尺(あさか)国. Asaka can also be written with these Chinese characters: 浅香.

Hiwada

Asakayama is a place well known to the poets of old.
Even Matsuo Basho, on his tour to the Narrow Roads of the North, visited this mountain area in July 17, 1689. It is close to Shirakawa.
Now it serves as the Nature Park, where you can enjoy the cherry blossoms and later on the azaleas.

The following day, 5.1, they went on to Hiwada, a post town on the northern highway which provided courtesans and other comforts and entertainments for travellers. The place is called Hiwada because the houses are thatched with cypress bark (hiwada).

The Mount Asaka Basho refers to is located north and east of Hiwada. Today there is another mountain by the same name near Lake Inawashiro, but it is not the mountain Basho visited. The mountain Basho visited is much used as a pillow word, for example in MYS, v. 16 in a poem by Uneme beginning Asakayama. When Basho speaks of many marshes in the area, this, too, is a pillow word.

Sora reports on the area saying, "To the right of Mount Asaka is a low lying area which by then was largely fields, but a few marshes remained. The area still retains the ancient name Asakanuma.

Two ancient wooden tablets (mokkan 歌木簡 ) from the Man'yōshū, containing the following waka have recently been found in Shiga prefecture, at the archeological site of the Shigaraki Palace in Kōka City. On the backside the slat showed part of the Naniwa-tsu waka from the Kokinshū which Ki no Tsurayuki had paired with the Asakayama poem.

滋賀県甲賀市

（安積香山 影副所見 山井之 浅心乎 吾念莫国）

（訳）安積山の影までも見える澄んだ山の井のように浅い心でわたしは思っておりませぬ

like the clear moutain well
that reflects the shadow
of Mount Asakayama
my heart is not shallow
when I think of youTr. Gabi Greve

In Katahira there is also a park in honor of Uneme,Uneme Park (Yamanoi Park)
Princess Haru was Uneme for the Imperial Court, and her sad love story was told from generation to generation. "Spring-water of Yamanoi" is told to be the place where the princess threw herself into the water.source : www.kanko-koriyama.gr.jp

Uneme is also a general name for an attendant at the Imperial Court, a kind of waitress at the table of the emperor.